Steve
I also have a fairly mediocre station with 50w to a vertical dipole actually
below the surrounding ground level (it is in a cut-out area at the bottom of
my garden) and my path to Caribbean thru North America is intercepted by a
steep sided hill within 1/4 mile.
Unlike you, I found no discernable difference between 45 and 75 as far as
repeats were concerned: I think it is often more a case of power
discrepancies, in that I work folk churning out 300+ watts, but my
pee-shooter station enjoys far lower ERP especially - this particularly the
case when I am S&P scratching round for new stations who are sometimes weak
at this end, so I must have been very weak at their end. All credit (and
thanks) to all those for persevering and pulling me through. Then again...I
guess you had a stream of stations queuing for your multiplier, whereas I
never experience that pleasant phenomenon....
I found that fine tuning the macros to give 3 - 5 runs of the exchange was
most effective in minimising repeat requests.
73, Ian GM4KLN
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Stephen/Marilyn Haines
Sent: 14 June 2010 12:40
To:
Subject: Re: [RTTY] BARTG 75 Sprint
From the perspective of one with a poor signal (FT-757, 40 watts and a
vertical), the higher speed seemed to make QSOs much harder for me. I'm
also not in a center of RTTY activity. The difference between 45 and 75
baud pushes me from "yes it's hard but I enjoy it" to "It's impossible
-- why bother." Is there anyone else on the list with a truly weak
signal that had the same reaction? Steve, ZP9EH
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